Quote Originally Posted by wayoftheleaf
^^some pharmaseutical companies have been selling medications that turned out before distrubuting to the masses were harmful, to third world countries.
Lots of pharmaceutical companies have been selling medications that turned out to be beneficial to people of all nations. Yeah, sometimes they screw up, but that's because they're human and they make mistakes. When you look at the big picture, pharmaceutical companies have saved many many many many many more lives than they have inadvertently killed. Sometimes we accidentally send poisoned food to starving third-world nations. Does that mean we should stop sending food altogether? No, because we're saving many more lives than we're destroying.

And I'm not really one to stand up to the corporate fat cats. I'm a freaking communist. But I attribute the good of this situation to the progress of medical scientists who have spent their entire careers finding out how certain chemicals interact with the human bodies to be able to get the right chemicals to the right people. These people genuinely want to save human lives; this is why we have medical science to begin with. It's unfortunate that these drugs have to be distributed to the public in the current way via huge pharmaceutical companies, but at least the drugs are based in science and they're saving and improving lives.

I will not deny that the capitalistic lust for money has driven some pharmaceutical companies to do some obscene things, but for the most part they don't get too far with that. It's not like they're out to make people ill. They're taking scientifically approved drugs and marketing them to the public; they have the FDA to keep them in check and make sure they don't step outside the lines.

I want an unbiased scientific research on marijuana that won't be disputed.

Give me that and i'll be happy to never talk about it's benifits and harmfull side effects again
I want that too. I want cannabis to be publicly recognized as a drug with scientifically proven benefits, so that doctors may prescribe it to the public. Yeah, it would be a bummer to see the pharmaceutical companies take hold in the cannabis industry, but if that's what it takes to save and improve lives in the meantime, then I'm all for it.